On Friday, 6th February, the Holy Father named as Metropolitan Archbishop of Pisa Father Saverio Cannistra, OCD, former Prepositor General of Discalced Carmelites, and currently Vicar of the parish of Saint Pancras in Rome.
Curriculum vitae
Msgr. Saverio Cannistra, OCD, was born in Catanzaro on 3rd October 1958. After obtaining a licence in Romance philology at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, he worked as an editor at a publishing house. On 17th September, 1985, he entered the novitiate of the Discalced Carmelites of the Italian Province of Tuscany. He made his perpetual profession on 14th September, 1990, and was ordained as a priest on 24th October, 1992.
Among the positions he has occupied and studies he has pursued, we can list the following: Doctorate in Dogmatic Theology at the Gregorian Pontifical University of Rome (1998); lecturer in Trinitarian Theology at the Pontifical Theology Faculty and Institute of Spirituality “Teresianum” in Rome (1995-2003); Professor of Christology and Theological Anthropology at the Theological Faculty of Central Italy in Florence (2003-2009). In 2007, he was elected member of the Council of the Presidency of the Italian Theological Association.
In his Province of Tuscany, he has been a provincial counsellor (1996-2002), master of postulants and students (1999-2008) and provincial (2008). He was Prepositor General of the Order of Discalced Carmelites from 2009 to 2021. He is a member of the presbyteral council of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Florence, and Vicar of the Parish of Saint Pancras in Rome.
